THE OLYMPICS IS ON.....

Well of course it is you say its all over the news and TV One but this is no regular Olympics it is the scrapping Olympics over at The Sketchbook. It is running for six weeks and has great prizes and you get to do a challenge a week. The Olympics started on Friday with a warm up challenge to be done by tomorrow night at midnight. the warm up challenge was to chose a country's flag and only use the colours on the flag to do a layout of YOURSELF. I chose Estonia and the colours on the flag are teal, black and white awesome colour combo. Here is my layout:



products used:

Cardstock teal, white and black
bumpy teal paper unknown brand
Bird cut out from tinkering ink paper
circle from Urban lily paper
Owl and journal spot from Shabby Chic
Cosmo cricket butterflies
Kaisercraft gems and pearls
Crafters choice Brads
Green Tara flowers
Fancy pants stamp
American crafts Vinyl poolside lettering
Scrapworks shimmer letter M
Provocraft letter e
Hambly grid transparency

Little Shop of Sketches

The new weekly sketch is up at Litte shop of sketches Go check out the layouts created by the other Designers they are awesome. Here is the sketch:



and here is my take



Products used
Stemma paper
Chipboard Journal spot
Provocraft and American craft alphas
Kaisercraft Rhinestones
white paint
To submit your layouts you will need to register in the gallery and forum at Stampin' Scrap and you will go into the monthly RAK at the end of the month - Have Fun !

Whoo Hoot Wednesday

Just a little whoo hoot Wednesday
Got my happy mail today from Shabby Chic Crafts in the USA from winning NZ dare 49 (rock the pipecleaners) - I was sent 52 journal cards/embellishments and they are awesome - one of my favourite things to use at the moment . I love journal cards even though I'm not much of a journaller! Some of the cards ie the apple ones go perfectly with Paper Pestos August kit which I got yesterday. Here's a pic of what I got from Shabby Chic crafts :



My sister Kim has had her first layout published in Scrapbook Creations and the magazine is out in OZ now and she has a full page of another layout (the title page in one of the galleries) in Scrapbook Memories current magazine (not out in NZ yet) - WTG my little sister. Check out Kim's blog for heaps of scrapping info and her stunning layouts.

I'm getting some more happy mail from Shell at Scrapbook dreams as my layout - "I said cuddle not throttle" got drawn out of the hat for this weeks RAK ! Speaking of that I have also completed my "inchies" and almost finished my ATC's for the swaps at Scrapbook Dreams will share once the swaps are complete. ( I must remember to take a photo of the ATC's this time).

Watching the opening ceremony and having a middle of the night feast with the kids was great even though they got a bit bored and restless - maybe next summer Olympics they will enjoy it more.

Thats my whoo hoots for this week - have a great week

Challenge at Sketchbook

I have done a minibook about my "roles" for the challenge at Sketchbook which was put up this weekend and finishes tomorrow night at midnight. You can either do a layout or minibook. I had received this chipboard album as a RAK from Sketchbook and came up with this:

Front Cover (love how this photo came out - didnt notice the sun beams until the photo was on my computer)



Page 2 and 3



page 4 and 5



back cover



products used
Majestical Memories chipboard album
3 Bugs in a rug paper
Kaisercraft pearls and journal stamp
Prima,green tara and memory garden flowers
queen and co felt flowers,flower brad, chick and eggs
Imaginese bird stamp
Stazon black ink
versacube umber ink
MM sunflower paint
ribbons

A Productive Friday

I had a long day yesterday - awake at 6am and back to bed 4am today but is was very productive. Kaitlyn had four hours of kindy and then had lunch and slept for almost two. They have been having 'Olympics practice" at kindy for their Olympics the next two weeks and she was a bit worn out. So I had the morning to clean house , catch up with the washing finally and did a layout in the morning and while she was asleep did another (see two previous posts) and caught up with blogland. We then had the normal pick up from school , dinner and getting the kids to bed. I then had another four hours to do some scrapping (layouts later). We then woke the kids up and watched the opening ceremony of the Olympics and had a midnight feast of chicken nibbles, chips and other goodies including a batch of peanut brownies baked at 2:30am - something different and a bit of fun.

Here's the layouts created last night:

Cherish - Girls Night in Challenge at Stampin' Scrap



products used
Basic grey paper and tag
American Craft alphas
lace trim
Heidi swapp alphas
Kaisercraft Pearls
Chipboard Butterfly

Stay close - Scrapbox NZ August Sketch Challenge




Products used
Prima paper and tag
Kindy Glitz
Kaisercraft Gems and flower
American craft alphas
basic grey chipboard heart


Programmed to play - Scrapbooking by Designs August Sketch




products used
two busy moms, cosmo cricket paper and prima paper
brads
basic grey tag

Boys TV Addicts - Scrap Savvy Ad Challenge




Products Used
Kaisercraft superhero, Scenic Route and Cosmo cricket Paper
Carolees creations mini alphas
fancy pants stamps
whisper ink

Sketchbook Fortnightly Sketch Challenge

This was put up a little later this week but I have done mine in under an hour and I think its one of my favourite layouts - pretty stoked with it actually. Here it is:



Products used( mainly from a Paper Pesto Kit)
Heidi Swapp, Creative Imaginations and Deja Views paper
Hambly studios Transparency
Cosmo cricket and other chipboard
Provocraft Alphas
Jenni Bowlin Journal Sticker
Brad (unknown brand)
chalk
black stazon ink

Scrappin' Patch challenge

This challenge ends next Friday - a sketch challenge. Here's my layout -




Products used:

Scenic route and kaisercraft paper
Scenic route Journal Diecut
Belle , Bazzil and lil davis chipboard
Heidi Swapp Buttons and heart pins
Kaisercraft dew drops
Queen and co photo turns and brads
My minds eye memories tag
Carolees Creations alphas